Clothing and Textiles – Fashion
Clothing and textiles project experiences can include:
- Fashion Show
- Fashion Show Natural Fiber
- Fashion Storyboard
- Duds to Dazzle
- Quilt Challenge
- Texas 4-H Clothing Advisory Board
More information about the Clothing & Textiles Project can be found here: Texas 4-H Clothing & Textiles Packet
4-H Fashion Show
The 4-H Fashion Show allows members to exhibit skills developed in their clothing projects, including: application of knowledge of fibers and fabrics to wardrobe selection, clothing construction or comparison shopping, fashion interpretation and understanding of style, good grooming and poise, and modeling and presentation of themselves and their garments at the county, district and state levels.
The Fashion Show has two divisions – Buying and Construction, with categories to choose from within each division. An interview is a part of all contests. During the Style Show you will have the opportunity to model your garment.
County Fashion Show
- March 26th at the Walker County Fairgrounds
- Call the Extension Office by March 15th if you would like to participate in the Walker County Roundup.
District Fashion Show
- May 3, 2019 at District 9 4-H Roundup “Big Time in D-9” – Event information can be found on the District 9 4-H Fashion Show website.
- Register on 4-H Connect by: April 3, 2019 .
- This year the “Big Time in D9” contest will be at the Lone Star Community College in the Woodlands TX! Directions
State Fashion Show
- June, 2019 at Texas 4-H Roundup – entry forms are found at the state website here:Texas 4-H Clothing and Textiles Packet
- Register on 4-H Connect by: TBA, 2016
Attached is the Guidelines, paperwork, and other resources to help you with any question you might have. If you have any additional questions please don’t hesitate to call the Extension Office at 936-435-2426.
**HELPFUL RESOURCES**
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More resources can be found here: State 4-H Clothing and Textiles website
4-H Fashion Storyboard Competition
The 4-H Fashion Storyboard
is an industry-inspired method of displaying original designs. The best storyboards create vivid visual images that are interesting and appealing. The board uses original illustrations and flats, as well as photos from magazines and the internet, fabric swatches and colored and patterned papers to tell the story of the designers’ ideas. Participation is this new competition allows members to gain knowledge of the career responsibilities of a fashion designer and illustrator, enhance creativity and originality and develop visual communication skills. 4-H members must submit a storyboard on the day of the various contests that provides a solution to that year’s design brief.
DESIGN BRIEF The following design brief serves as the direction for the 2016 Fashion Storyboards. 4-H members should create their Fashion Storyboard around their interpretation of the design brief. #4HFashionStoryboard2016 Social media has become a stage to not only set fashion trends, but to launch designers. Social media outlets such as, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and YouTube are easily accessible, and conversational in nature. Fashion trends are created though social media, the trend is not “imposed” on the audience, but instead, it is made available for the audience, and the audience will have the freedom to adopt it or grasp onto part of it. Create your own design and create a storyboard that will help it go vira
More information about the Fashion Storyboard contest can be found here: Texas 4-H Clothing & Textiles Packet
County Competition:
- April 4th at the Walker County Fairgrounds
- Call the Extension Office by March 29th if you would like to participate in the Walker County Roundup.
District Competition:
- Register on 4-H Connect by: April 8, 2016
- Storyboards due to the County Extension Office by April 15, 2016
- This year the “Big Time in D9” contest will be at the Lone Star Community College in the Woodlands TX! Directions
State Competition:
- Register on 4-H Connect by: TBA, 2016
- Storyboards due the day of competition: TBA
Duds To Dazzle
Youth in the 4-H Clothing & Textile Project learn about fibers and fabrics, wardrobe selection, clothing construction, comparison shopping, fashion interpretation, understanding of style and
design, proper grooming, poise in front of others, and personal presentation skills. The Texas 4-H Duds to Dazzle Clothing & Textiles Competition goes one step beyond, utilizing the knowledge and skills learned in the project, while increasing awareness of the impact of the clothing & textile industry on the environment, specifically the waste stream. In the competition, teams of 4-H members will re-design and repurpose discarded garments or textiles into new, viable consumer products.
More information about Duds to Dazzle can be found here: Texas 4-H Clothing & Textiles Packet
County Competition
- April 4th at the Walker County Fairgrounds
- Call the Extension Office by March 29th if you would like to participate in the Walker County Roundup.
District Competition
- April 30th at Lone Star Community College in The Woodlands TX! Directions
- Register on 4-H Connect by April 8, 2016
4-H Quilt Challenge Information
The 4-H Quilt Challenge is a Clothing and Textiles community service project in which individuals, teams groups or clubs complete a quilt using the challenge fabric and donate it to a charity of their choice. Each team will be given a challenge fabric that must be incorporated into the quilt design. All quilts must have some sort of 4-H identification incorporated into their quilt top. The Quilt Challenge will provide youth the opportunity to utilize their sewing skills gained in the 4-H Clothing and Textiles project to complete a quilt that will be judged and then donated to a charity of their choice.
Contest Information and Resources:
Quilt Challenge Guidelines – Quilt Challenge Guidelines
Quilt Challenge Contest Forms – Quilt Challenge Contest Forms
